Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.28, English translation, including word-by-word: This text represents a Vaishnava scripture which narrates the life Krishna, It was composed in seventeen cantos by Garga Muni: an ancient sage and priest of the Yadu dynasty having. This is verse 5 of Chapter 8 (The Killing of Kamsa) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.8.28
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
आकाशात् पातयाम् आस
मञ्चोपरि रुषान्वितः
भग्न-दण्डो ऽभवन् मञ्चस्
तडित्-पाते यथा द्रुमः
ākāśāt pātayām āsa
mañcopari ruṣānvitaḥ
bhagna-daṇḍo 'bhavan mañcas
taḍit-pāte yathā drumaḥ
ākāśāt—from the sky; pātayām āsa—threw; mañcopari—into the box; ruṣānvitaḥ—angry; bhagna-daṇḍaḥ—broken; abhavat—became; mañcaḥ—the box; taḍit-pāte—in a thunderbolt; yathā—as; drumaḥ—a tree.
English translation of verse 5.8.28:
Angry Kṛṣṇa then threw him into the box at the arena. The box shattered like a tree struck by lightning.